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Citizenship And Immigration: Citizenship Applications

Canadian Citizenship Dept: The Citizenship and Immigration Canada office in Sydney, N.S., handles citizenship applications for the entire country, according to CBC. "Citizenship and Immigration as a department has a fixed amount of resources and we're facing increasing applications in all of our program areas." Immigrants are having to wait 15 to 19 months to have Canadian citizenship applications approved as the office that handles the applications struggles with increased demand. 'I don't think this is a good way of welcoming our fellow Canadian citizens-to-be.' Edward Chung, Korean Association of P.E.I. "Really it's just a question of enough resources to process all the applications we receive," CIC operations manager Paul Snow told News last week. As reported in the news.
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